On 31.03.2019 17:05, Heiner Kallweit wrote: > On 31.03.2019 16:58, Andrew Lunn wrote: >>> - In auto-neg case, skip populating lp_advertising if we >>> don't have a link. This avoids quite some unnecessary >>> MDIO reads in case of phylib polling mode. >> >> Hi Heiner >> >> Could it be that we don't have a link because what the partner is >> advertising does not intersect with what we are advertising? >> > Interesting point. Yes, I think I missed that scenario. > Just saw that Dave applied this patch. So I will send a fix to deal with this scenario properly.
>> Hence knowing what it is adverting is actually useful in this case? >> >> Andrew >> > Heiner >